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Rh nature, and gave the Gospel a chance to be seen in its glorious effects upon the body. A ghastly array of diseases was not paraded before the imagination. There were fewer books on digestion, and more “sermons in stones, and good in everything.” When the mechanism of the human mind gives place to the Divine Mind, selfishness and sin, disease and death, will lose their foothold.

Human fear of miasma would load with disease the

air of Eden, and weigh down mankind with superimposed and conjectural evils. Mortal mind is the worst foe of the body, while divine Mind is its best friend.

Should all cases of organic disease be treated by a regular practitioner, and the Christian Scientist try his

hand only on cases of hysteria, hypochondria, and hallucination? One disease is no more real than another. All disease is the result of education, and can carry its ill-effects no further than mortal mind maps out the way. Christian Science heals organic disease as well as functional. It finds that decided types of acute disease are quite as ready to yield to Truth as the less distinct type and chronic form of disease. It handles the most malignant contagion with perfect assurance.

Human mind produces what is termed organic disease as certainly as it produces hysteria, and it must

relinquish all its errors, sicknesses, and sins. I have demonstrated this beyond all cavil. The evidence of divine Mind's healing power and absolute control is to me as certain as the evidence of my existence.